TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Ultra Proteus

LABEL: Coup d'Etat Entertainment

RIPPER: Team RNS

149kbps avg - Hip-Hop
0hr 50min total- 57.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-06-15
RIP DATE: 2004-06-12

01 Boogaloo Odyssey (Welcome)     1:06

03 Slide Back (Straight No Chaser)2:17

06 David Maxelrod Interlude       1:06
07 Ultra Proteus (Charlize's      2:54

09 Various Blends                 2:36

11 The Opus (Erhen's Groove)      3:06
12 Joe Good Interlude             1:26

14 Al Japro (OhNo Remix)          3:41
15 Slide Back (Straight No        3:36
Chaser) (Automato Remix)
16 Funk Reaction (Rondo Brothers  3:23

17 Ultra Proteus (Nezbeat Remix   5:05
feat. ID of Archetype)
18 The Opus (NASA NYC Punx Remix) 3:14

The cover artwork features a beautiful
black woman, sitting on a white chair
listening to a 70's style stereo system.
The cover and the graphics bring a
slightly different vibe from what is in
fashion now, maybe suggesting that
this album is not of this time.

"Ultra Proteus" sounds like a long lost
classic hip-hop album from 1992, backed
with a few instrumentals from 1972,
until you realize that the copyright on
the back says 2004. Once I heard the sound
of the Hammond organ rolling through
with chopped beats, I knew this album

Approach is the rapper and producer, so
he is able to create his own sound in his
own terms without regret. As he says in
"Funk Reaction", Approach tries to
create music that is for "the body and
the soul", and that statement doesn't come
with attitude or arrogance.

Approach wears his love of the old
school with pride, and perhaps for that
reason these songs may turn off a lot of
people who are used to silly meaningless
sing-song tracks. The way he raps (at
times sounding like Doodlebug of
Digable Planets) and the way he weaves
within the music, which goes back and
forth between layered samples and real
instrumentation, makes him someone to

With Black Eyed Peas and Thelonious Monk
cited as influences, maybe there's more
to Approach than what is heard on "Ultra